Clickity clack, clickity clack . . . Splat's bicycle bumps and jumps over the bumpy track on his way to school, until . . . crack! Splat takes a tumble off of his bike and finds himself nose to beak with a duck. A crash of this caliber should certainly merit some alarm from this duck, but Splat hears no sound. A duck with no quack? Splat thinks that his teacher, Mrs. Wimpydimple, will know what…
For each title in the stage 6 pack, these teaching notes provide prompts and suggestions for before and during reading, activities for using the books in group and independent reading at text, sentence and word level.'
These Teaching Notes provide links to Oxford Reading Tree stories, help with individual and guided reading, writing activities, speaking and listening activities.'
True Stories is a special series of Oxford Reading Tree titles which are diesigned to introduce children to nonfiction through enjoyable narrative biographies.'